Ivdel

It's two small moments often overlooked, but now in hindsight, it feels like the first ripples of a disaster.

They made their way to Ivdel, then Vizhai, took a truck to a logging settlement, and then went by skis in a horse-drawn sled for their equipment to an abandoned geological site with around 25 houses.

There, they rested, cooked, repacked, tried to enjoy the last time they would have four walls and a roof and some semblance of comfort.

By January 28th, Yuri Yudin had to turn back due to health concerns.

They were hurried, perhaps, but the footprints showed a bit of organization, some level of calm, and many of them died of hypothermia, not injuries.

On top of that, maybe the slashes on the tent were being looked at all wrong.

The investigation changed when a seamstress came to mend one of the investigators' uniforms at the local police station in Ivdel.

There, the Dyatlov expedition tent was hung up for close examination.

Dubonina's foot is actually wrapped in Krivonichenko's wool pants.

But when Vosrozdeni brings these last four bodies back to the morgue in Ivdel, the whole they just froze to death theory shatters completely.

Completely falls apart.

Kolvatov died of hypothermia, but the other three suffered catastrophic skeletal crushing trauma.